Απολυτίκιο Αρχής της Ινδίκτου – 01 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ
TROPARUL ŞI POMENIREA ÎNCEPUTUL NOULUI AN BISERICESC
01 septembrie
Începutul Indictului, adică anul nou bisericesc.
Trebuie să ştim că Biserica lui Dumnezeu prăznuieşte Indictul („Indiction” la români însemnă: poruncă şi arătare), luând obicei de la cei batrâni; că era obicei, la români, să se facă începătură anului de la acest Indiction, adică la 1 septembrie.
Şi pentru că în această zi a intrat Domnul nostru Iisus Hristos în Sinagoga iudeilor, şi dându-I-se cartea lui Isaia proorocul, şi deschizând-o a aflat locul unde era scris: „Duhul Domnului peste Mine, pentru care M-a uns a binevesti săracilor, a vindeca pe cei zdrobiti la inimă, a propovădui robilor slobozenie şi orbilor vedere. A slobozi pe cei sfărâmaţi întru usurare, a propovădui anul Domnului cel primit” (Luca 4, 16-22 dupa Isaia 61, 1-2). Apoi dând cartea slugii şi sezând a zis: „Că astăzi s-a plinit Scriptura aceasta în urechile voastre”. Cât s-au şi mirat popoarele de cuvintele darului ce ieşeau din gura Lui.
De asemenea, tradiţia spune că şi poporul evreu a intrat in Ţara Făgăduinţei în această lună de Septembrie.
Γιὰ τὴν περίπτωση αὐτή, ὁ Σ. Εὐστρατιάδης στὸ Ἁγιολόγιό του, γράφει τὰ ἑξῆς: «Λέξις λατινικὴ (indictio) ὁρισμὸν σημαίνουσα καθ’ ὂν κατὰ δεκαπενταετὴ περίοδον ἐπληρώνοντο εἰς τοὺς αὐτοκράτορας τῶν Ρωμαίων οἱ φόροι. Κατὰ τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν παράδοσιν, τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ἰνδικτιῶνος εἰσήγαγεν ὁ Αὔγουστος Καῖσαρ (1 – 14), ὄτε διέταξε τὴν γενικὴν τῶν κατοίκων τοῦ Ρωμαϊκοῦ κράτους ἀπογραφὴν καὶ τὴν εἴσπραξιν τῶν φόρων, κατὰ τὴν πρώτην τοῦ Σεπτεμβρίου μηνός. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου (313) ἐγένετο ἐπισήμως χρῆσις τῆς Ἰνδικτιῶνος ὡς χρονολογίας. Ἔκτοτε δὲ ἡ ἐκκλησία Κωνσταντινουπόλεως μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ἑορτάζει τὴν 1η Σεπτεμβρίου ὡς ἀρχὴν τοῦ ἐκκλησιαστικοῦ ἔτους».
«Ἴνδικτον ἡμῖν εὐλόγει νέου χρόνου, ὢ καὶ παλαιὲ καὶ δι’ ἀνθρώπους νέε».
Ἀπολυτίκιο. Ἦχος β’.
Ὁ πάσης Δημιουργός τῆς κτίσεως, ὁ καιροὺς καὶ χρόνους ἐν τῇ ἰδὶᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ θέμενος, εὐλόγησον τὸν στέφανον, τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τῆς χρηστότητός σου, Κύριε, φυλάττων ἐν εἰρήνῃ τοὺς βασιλεῖς καὶ τὴν πόλιν σου, πρεσβείαις τῆς Θεοτόκου, μόνε Φιλάνθρωπε.
Κοντάκιον. Ἦχος δ’. Ὁ ὑψωθεὶς ἐν τῷ Σταυρῷ.
Ὁ τῶν αἰώνων Ποιητὴς καὶ Δεσπότης, Θεὲ τῶν ὅλων Ὑπερούσιε ὄντως, τὴν ἐνιαύσιον εὐλόγησον περίοδον, σώζων τῷ ἐλέει σου, τῷ ἀπείρῳ Οἰκτίρμων, πάντας τοὺς λατρεύοντας, σοὶ τῷ μόνῳ Δεσπότῃ, καὶ ἐκβοῶντας φόβῳ Λυτρωτά· Εὔφορον πᾶσι, τὸ ἔτος χορήγησον.
Μεγαλυνάριον.
Ἄναρχε Τρισήλιε Βασιλεῦ, ὁ καιρῶν καὶ χρόνων, τὰς ἑλίξεις περισκοπῶν, εὐλόγησον τὸν κύκλον, τῆς νέας περιόδου, τὰς ἀγαθάς σου δόσεις, πᾶσι δωρούμενος.
The first day of the Church New Year is also called the beginning of the Indiction. The term Indiction comes from a Latin word meaning, „to impose.” It was originally applied to the imposition of taxes in Egypt. The first worldwide Indiction was in 312 when the Emperor Constantine (May 21) saw a miraculous vision of the Cross in the sky. Before the introduction of the Julian calendar, Rome began the New Year on September 1.
According to Holy Tradition, Christ entered the synagogue on September 1 to announce His mission to mankind (Luke 4:16-22). Quoting Isaiah 61:1-2), the Savior proclaimed, „The spirit of the Lord is upon me; because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to proclaim release to captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord…” This scene is depicted in a Vatican manuscript (Vatican, Biblioteca. Cod. Gr. 1613, p.1).
Tradition says that the Hebrews entered the Promised Land in September.